Pagina's

For the 12th year in a row the EU failed to produce financial accounts that satisfy the critical eyes of the EU's own court of auditors.

The EC is now so frustrated with this state of affairs that they (What? Sack the biggest perpetrators of misallocation and erroneous recording of taxpayers money? Promise a War on Bad Accounting? Well?)... take it out on the auditors. Their working methods are now severely questioned by Siim Kallas, the administration commissioner.

If the EU miraculously produced perfect accounts, with every cent traced, every "t" dotted and "i" crossed, would we suddenly be in favour of the EU?

I think not.

But if an organization with as grand a scheme and ambition as the EU can't even get this right, what good is it then? The worst part of it is: We can't even vote these people out of office, like we would be able to in a functional, real democracy.

And for those that may hope for member state intervention: I don't believe for a minute any member state government will take the EC to task over this. They haven't done so the previous 11 times, so why should they start now?